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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

snd throwing the occupants to the
ground. Mr.. Phillips leg was broken in
the fall and Mr.. Mayors foot was caus ht
in the spring of the buggy and he was
dragged some distance and bruised, but
not seriously.
The stock CT saddles and harness of W .
G. Knight was levied on yesterday under
an attachment issuing out of the County
court in favor of Dallas firm against /.
B. Wsford. Mr.. knight will sue for
damages
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

OUR GROVER is not only good Presi-
dent but a very smooth politician. He
made himself solid End put the Republi-
cans at disadvantage by the G. a. R
episode. And now if he does no more
than talk of Colquitt for cabinet place,
northern Prohibitionists will battle hard
TO reduce Republican strength in close
states beyond the Ohio.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
ers and students of this most bewitching

ADRIFTIN THE WILDS-November. Boys
Home Library, A. L. Burt, publisher, New
York. Csc per volume.
This volume is one of the monthly pub
LEGATIONS from the house Of A. L. Burt.
The design is to place in the hands of our
boys kind of fiction that shall work no
moral injury, and yet satisfy the natural
longing of young people for the mar
vellous and the exciting.
"Adrift in the Wilds," is recital OF
the adventures of two boys aud their
Irish guardian on the way home from New
York to San Francisco, and includes ship
wrecks, encounters with wild animals.
meetings with Indians and miners, and
these various experiences are well re-
lated, and the whole spiced with genuine
Celtic wit,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.

A Democratic Majority of Thirty One on
Joint Ballot.
RICHMOND, VA, Nov. 19-Full returns
of the recent election for members OF
the General Assembly show that the COM
plexion of the new body will be as fol
lows: Senate, Democrats, 20; Republi-
cans, Il; House, Democrats, 81; Repub-
licans, 81; Independent, Democratic
majority on joint ballot, 81.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
Vernon.

Special TO the Gazette.
VERNON, TEX, Nov. 19.-The Commits.
sioners' court has passed an order to
build bridge across Pease river. They
will receive propositions from the rail-
way company to join them in building q
railroad and wagon bridge together, and
propositions from all iron and steel
bridge comps MES.
The Com missioners' court let $500
contract tn G s. Wundt of Burlington,
Ia, for Wolfe's patent robber shelving
and file cases for the vaults of the new
courthouse. The timers are now putting
the roof on the courthouse. The town
Is surely being painted red; almost every
brick building in town has been dressed
in red paint. -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
COLLINGSWORFH TROUBLES.

The Grand Jury Condemns tho Workings
of,hs Lease Law In the Panhandle.
Correspondence OF tn Gazette.
MoBEETIE, TEX Nov. 16.-The grand
Jury completed it's labors and made its
report to the District court to-day. Act
ing under instructions from Judge Willis
it made thorough investigation of the
Colllngsworth troubles, with the follow
ing result, which is embodied in it's writ
ten report:
l. We have ascertained by an
examination OF The records for
Wheeler and attached coun.
ties that the Rocking Chair Ranch
company has leased from the state Of
Texas all public school lands in Ceilings
worth county, or all that portion of said
lands which are enclosed within the linn
its of SAID company's fence, except one
section Of GAO acres sold TO an individual
prior to the withdrawal of said lands from
the market by the State Land Board.
2. We find upon examination of wit
nesses summoned to appear before this
body that there are some twenty
or more actual settlers located
in Collingsworth county, upon lands leas-
ed to the Rocking Chair Ranch Company,
all of whom had selected their present.
location and settled thereupOn prior TO
July 4, 1887, expressing their desire and
determination to become purchasers of
such lands as they had settled upon for
homes, when the sale of the same should
be provided for by legislative action and
we also find thst some of said settlers
are grazing more than sixty-four head OF
live stock, cattle ard horses, upon their
claims.
That during the month of September,
1887, one J. John Drew, manager for the
Rocking Chair Ranch Company, did IN
person, notify some OF said settlers to
comply with the requirements of land
laws enacted by the Twentieth LegisIa-
ture by removing che excess OF stock be-
yond the limits of said companY's pas
ture; but in no instance have we arrived
at the fact that any actual settler WAS IN
Inundated or otherwise deferred from
enjoying the sanctity OF his home by the
action OF the management of the Rocking
Chair Ranch Company.
4. That there exists to O certainty con-
6icting leases in Collingsworth county,
both of which were granted and perfected
by authority Of the state of Texas since
July 4, 1887.
5. We must admit, after earnest in
vestigstion and elaboration, that there
exists dissatisfaction to q lamentable
degree upon the part of the
actual settlers and the lessee in
Collingsworth county, but must confess
that the administration Ct conservative
remedy Is beyond the legal power of this
body. And while it is not cur mission or
aim to become political body the con-
vicEion forces itself upon US, that the
present lease law is 8 disturbing lement
in our section of country; that the great
state OF Texas, In her greed for money,
accepts bids from concentrated capital for
the use of her public lands, to the detri-
ment and oppression of that class of her
population who earn their bread by the
sweat of their brow. TSlgned7
J.E HUFFMAN,
W. W. DICKRRsoN,
r 3 MAsTERsON.
G.. B. WILLINGHAM,
GEORGE FINK,
A S WILLIAMS,
GEO. o MATHEWS,
W MILLER,
HENRY EUBANK,
L. S. GRAGG,
II. j. NEsPER.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

PINE BLUFF has been overrun by
tramps for some time, and now she is
harboring real live dynamiter. A bomb
was recently exploded by passing train
and one os the train hands almost killed.
1t is time that people should be on the
watch for these bomb dends.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
TOO HEAVY.

Iron Columns Made by the State for the
Capitol Dome Rejected.
Austin Dispatch.
The state has contract to furnish the
cast iron work for the new cspitoI dome,
and yesterday two OF the twenty iron col
umns, intended as supports to the widest
rim of the dome, were received and re-
iected by the capitol commissioners as
being too heavy and not in accordance
with the specifications and contract
They are beautiful castings and weigh
five tons each. They are valued st $500
each, and if the state has cast all twenty
the state will be out of pocket some
$4,000.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

THE Lesvenworth Times says that the
question with every Republican is: "Who
can carry the country?" Our hand is up:
Bis name is Grover Cleveland, and his
address is Washington, D. G.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

COLONEL Boa CROCKETT, who madesuch
o rollicking speech at the Confederate
reunion at Dallas, writes friend that:
sT have cut my hair, joined the church
and am still in the race for Governor.
Whoop lain He ought to get there.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

THIS dense smoke doesn't betoken an
earthquake. 1t comes from fires to the
north of us. Those Of our people who
were casting up their accounts, can go on
marrying and being given in marriage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

EvIcTIoNs, strikes, revolts and law
suits continue to grow as thicklY as
blackberries in the Lehigh Valley, where
"American laborers sre protected against
the pauper labor of Europe"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

A FORT WORTH butcher complains that
some people will not buy venison because
1t is too deer, who will refuse mutton be-
cause it is too sheep. He is going to
make them gobble turkeys.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

If JOHANN MOST does not like the laws
of this country why does he not return
whence he came? There is no law to
prevent him fren doing 60, and the peo-
pie of this country are satisfied with its
laws and its freedom.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

Mr.. W. BEATTY KINGDOM has q book
in press entitled "Monarchs I Have
Met" We have all met monarchs In our
Gay, and we humbled ourselves to the
dust in their presence, unless we hap
pened to have four aces.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

ONE hundred and forty-nine men, loyal
and true, wanted to be Minister to Libe-
ria, and the one hundred and iftieth who
secured the appointment has just re-
turned, and is willing to let the job out
IN shares
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

THEY are commencing to ripen early.
An old lady has just died. declaring with
her last breath that she was General
Grants nurse. The last installment of
Grants nurse will be buried about A. D..
1858,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

ALL kinds Of gambling is sinful, and
all kinds are dangerous, but if man
wants "desd sinch" on winning let him
bet on the Louisiana Lottery's candidate
for GnYernor.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

Tue woods in Arkansas are sfre and
prc.eat damage is being done. Unless
good rain comes soon, untold suffering
may be looked for.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

WE HAVE no sea and no sailors in the
interior, but the rapidity with which our
young men learn to "splice the main
Brace would make an old salt dizzy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
Temple.

Special to the Gazette.
TEMPLE, TEX, Nov. 19 while Messrs.
Joe Phillips and j. j. Mayer were driving
across bridge near the Santa Fe Cross
ing on Twelfth street last night, the
horse which was attached to the buggy in
which they were seated became fright
ened and ran away, turning the buggy
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- sub,oribsrS wishing their address
changed from one postoflce TO another, must
Five the old address as well IS the new or the
change cannot be made.
All Postmasters IN the State sre authorized
20 take subscriptions to THE GAZETTE.
LIBERAL COMMISSIONS ALLOWED
Sample copies sent on application.
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Coop roads, manufactures and big
stock yards-these would make Fort
Worth grow and prosper.
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W MED MALE HnI-p

"ANTED-3OO men on exten.lou ,f..s--g-r>,
w Worth and Denver City RAILWAY NJ, ~
men, teamsters and sCraaer bc 80
Wages of teamsteFs SIS per month and i S..a1
day men Sl.75pef day. BY applying az 49,
can be obtained at Ealf fare. a. yI--', l
Quanah to s. Minis. or out OF the voTss =, \ y
Carey. " =
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

KING BUMBERT of Italy could command
q fine salary in this country if he would
turn his attention to booming.ne towns.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
OUR BOOK TABLE.
UPS AND DOWNS OF AN Il SPENT LIFE
By Harry Watkins. Publishers, Brooks &
Wallace, Waco, Tex.

UPS AND DOWNS OF AN II L SPENT LIFE
By Harry Watkins. Publishers, Brooks &
Wallace. Waco, Tex.
The author has written this record in
the hope, doubtless, that it may arrest
some in their downward course. Water
drinkers will applaud; but the man that
is to be curedl Alas, what has been the
history? Words have not prevailed.
The patient must have renewing of the
will. One remedy alone remains for the
evil, that Is abstain. It is easily pre-
scribed, but who, having once Yielded,
csn bear up through the struggle that SO
violent change enforces?
Down the corridors of time have ruug
tie words Of warning. Have men needed
them? Out of the blsck dep hs men who
felt that the wsters had gone over them,
have cried out to warn others ere ii be
forever too late of the precipice towards
which they sre fastening. Are the foot
steps checked? If the confession so elo-
quently made by one of England's most
captivating writer's falls to check men in
their mad career, is it reasonable to hope
that the lifting of the veil in this case
can do more? Did such confession tend
to make men pause, good people could
more readily pardon the sad exhibit of
another's frailties.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
El.eIlc L.sh. Cor. sap ArgsIO.

EIs cIic L,Fht for san Angelo
Special 70 the Gazette.
SAN ANGELO, Tex, Nov. ia p's i,s
sition is being placed before the CIV
of this place Dy q representative -,
large electric hight corporation BY 80
the stores and other business hou;s.. 81
be lighted at much less cost tSsn 70
lights are at present. 1t is prSps.s lie
run the light In connection w
WaterWorks.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

PARADISE-A novel, by Lloyd s. Bryce Pub
fishers. funk & Wagnalls, 10 aOd 20 Aston
Place, New YorE.
OF me making Of many books there
seems, indeed to be no end, and for some
it is hard to fad reason for their beng.
From the tenor of this book the reader
must Judge that paradise here Is place
where divorces are easily granted, and it
would seem burlesque on we'll known
city and upon the methods there en-
ployed to facilitate divorce.
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TWELVE PAGES.

LAMAR must be hsrd hitter. He has
knocked Sparks out of the land office.
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Branch Offices of Tho Gazette.
DALIAs-7s5 Main Street, F. E. Holloway,
Manager
WAco-Percy Burlesou, Manager.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

NORTH'S PHILADELPHIA MI sICAL JOUR
NAL-F. A. North 4 Co., l3' Chestnut street.
The November number of this journal
Of music has its usual amount of good
music, and much news, foreign and do
mestic, OF what is doing in the musical
world. The pages devoted to musical
chat are full Of information to both teach
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

Ii GOVERNOR CoLoUITT is given cab
met position there will be one ration OF
"cold tea" less used than formerly.
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The Finest Rszyrsfn shc World
1t Andersouss gym store.
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THE GAZETTE has the largest
hons-fde Circulation of any Daily
Newspaper published in Texas.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

Dissolution Eorfcr.
VNHE firm of Sommerville & Chase, -
L Agents and Ranch BFasets. was di9s',
by mutual Consent asaxs 18th Septemb sI, -
w. Z. Somme ryillssts emil led to the assets -
Will dischaxgeLhe lab Titles of the firm
W. = SOHNERYLLl'
z f CHASE.
Fort Worth, Texas, Nov 20, 1851
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20

OFFICE OF THE FORT WORTH ASD
DENVER CITY RAILWAY COMPAA'-
FORT " ORTIZ, Tex, N0Y d -'''
The regular ar nual meetiRg Of the Clrg,y,--.,f
Company win be held a. the chic Of me c25.
pany In lhe CttYof Fort w rim, Texas On 2. ~
second Tuesday in December, lssi, Iy-asr7
Transaction f such business as may PIvF~'
come before it.
creiaL.-
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EOR RENT--NiceIy f,.rnisd,d rooms ,r--
L traliy locsted. with or without bosrr. Ar--
70 ''Is. Tbs. Royal. 2.3Jones reet bslEss.
firs AMI SecOs 6 street.
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FOR RENT-Dw ELLIEGs.

LOk.REN tn lceIy turnisA'Ir sO.In rUl-,
4 first and second floors, a. Mrs Masse,. n
Lamar ST. aleo day board. Trans, nj 81 .s7
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WANTkD-A Competent white mi n +,
w house work ana attend crl.trcu. -1-
st SIS Texas csrnes GRerrv street .'
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WANrED-FKNlALE HEI.P-

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w corner Ninth md Rusk. cpa-I,B NJ,
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NOR RESr-One hOCseysix rooms. hail sid
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FOR RENT Neat. cottage o. four 70 u; 3,
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
The Rattlesnake's Awful Eye


Never seeing suake charms bird or animal,
| concluded it was negro superstition or fancy,
devoid of fact. So ] continued to think till a
few days ago. when farmer friend of mine,
living four miles south of Abilene. told me what
he had lately witnessed. He said he was riding
along on the prairie and saw prairie dog
within a few feet Of him. which refused to scam
per to his hole, as prairie dogs usually do when
approached by man; on the contrary he sat as
If transf1xed to the spot, though making con-
slant nervous, shuddering motion, as If anxious
to get away. My friend thought this was
strange, and while considering the spectacle he
presently saw large rattlesnalse coiled up under
some bushes, his head uplifted, about six or
seven feet from the dog, which still needed him
not, but looked steadily upon the snake. He
dismouted, took the dog by the head and thrust
him off when the snake, which had mp to that
moment remained quiet, Immediately swelled
with rage and began sounding his rattles. The
prairiedog for sometime seemed benumbed, hard
ly capable of motion, but grew better and finally
got into his hole. My friend then killed the rat
tier Now, was this case of charming? If not,
what was it? My friend who told me this is
named John Irving Mcclure, a farmer, we'll
known to me, good and truthful man. | now
give it up that snakes do indeed charm, or so
paralyze birds and little animals with terror,
when they can catch their eye, that they become
helpless and motionless almost as good as dead
What says the scientists!
And 10 one who is familiar with the eyes of
rattlesnakeS it does not seem unreasonable
that they should have such power If you will
examine the eye of one when he is cold in DEATH
you will perceive that it has an extremely
malignant and terrible expression When he is
alive and excited, | know of nothing in all
nature of so dreadful appearance as the eye of
the rattlesnake, IL is enough to strike not only
birds and little animals but men with night
mare. | have on several occasions examined
them closely with strong glasses, and feel
with all force what l state and / will tell you
that there are few men on the face Of the earth
who can look upon an angered rattlesnake
through good glass-bringing him apparently
within foot or two of the eye-and stand It
more than moment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
Give Them Their own Medicine.

A case is reported from Mississippl which
may be suggestive to certain classes in
| Georgia. A man calling himself doctor
| Portland" travelled through several counties
! in that State dipping the negroes. He sold
| a medicine which he declared would not only
cure any disease, but which, when taken
according to directions, would prevent sick
ness and cause life to be prolonged beyond
| 100 years. He found many purchasers, and
his profits were enormous. 1t is said that at
the end of every week during more than
two. months he sent to bank in New Or
leans at least 81 900
OF course, his medicine was quack nos
trum and it utterly failed to do what he
said it would do. Although his dupes close
ly followed directions, they continued to be
subject to sickness, and quite large mum
Der of them died. Following the course
generally pursued by men of his stamp, he
remained only a few days in given COM
munity, thus avoiding q reckoning with the
ignorant creatures he had defrauded.
Among the dupes who purchased some of
CDR Portland's" medicine was negro who
painted for revenge. AS soon as his physi-
cal condition would permit he followed the
quack, determined to expose and punish
him. After a weary tramp through three
counties the negro found the object of his
pursuit in a small town, standing upon
dry goods box, in the middle of the street,
selling medicine and pocketing silver dol
lars. Forcing his way through the crowd
to a spot near "Dr Portland" the
negro told how he had been duped and an
nounced his intention to have revenge. Tho
quack tried to escape, but the crowd sur
rounded him, pulled him off the box, re-
| leved him of his money, and compelled him
to drink quart of his own medicine. The
nauseous dose almost killed him, but after
two weeks violent sickness he recovered
sufficiently to sneak away.
Attention has been often called to the
quacks who ply their trade in Georgia. The
MORNING NEWS has suggested that the
General Assembly should enact a law to
keep them out of the State. Perhaps, how
ever, if the Mississippi plan should be put
into execution, there would be no necessity
for the General Assembly to interfere. Few
quacks would dare to invade Georgia if
they knew that they would be compelled
to take their own medicine.